The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Why there won't be a Yiddish revival in Israel

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Musician Assaf Talmudi discusses how unlike in America, Israeli Jews don't need self definition.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Assaf Talmudi.

This excerpt is in English.

Assaf Talmudi was born in Petach Tikva, Israel in 1976.